MYTH: The Chupacabra

For over twenty years, the CIA and U.S. military ran a top-secret project to study psychic phenomena. The files were declassified in the mid-90s confirming not only our government’s belief that psychic powers exist, but that they were even used in some of the most important intelligence operations of the 20th century. 

Project Stargate was the name of the CIA and U.S. Army’s initiatives into remote viewing research. The goal? To see if it was possible to view objects at great distance through psychic means. 

In the summer of 1971, Maria Gomez Pereira noticed a dark stain forming on her kitchen floor. Nothing had been spilled and there was no reason for the stain. She began to scrub her floor... Little did she know that her home would soon be known worldwide as "the house of faces." 

While exploring Loe Bar in Britain one day, a teenager happened upon a ghostly medieval army. All of a sudden, they vanished as quickly as they had appeared. Was it King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table?

The construction of Coral Castle in Florida remains one of modern day’s greatest unsolved mysteries. While theories abound regarding its creation, many find it hard to understand how one man single-handedly quarried, moved, carved and positioned 1,100 tons of coral in the early- to mid-1900s. Had he mastered the skills of the pyramid builders as he claimed? Or was it something else entirely?

Legends of blood-sucking creatures have been present in many cultures throughout history. And the Chupacabra, a vampire-like creature that has a thirst for blood is no exception. It has been seen by thousands since the 1990's, mutilating livestock. How much of its existence is imagination and how much is reality? 

Elizabeth Knapp became possessed by the devil. It is the first documented possession cases, captured in detail by Samuel Willard, a prominent preacher in the Puritan, Massachusetts Bay Colony from October 30, 1671 until January 12, 1672. Or was it?

Marie Laveau was a famous and powerful voodoo priestess who lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 19th century. A free woman of color, she assumed a leadership role of a multiracial religious community. Renowned in life and revered in death, some say she continues to work her magic from beyond the grave.

Rudolph Fentz mysteriously disappeared in 1876. Seventy-five years later, a man believed to be Fentz, suddenly appears out of nowhere in Times Square. Was he an unwitting time traveler?

In 2004, U.S. navy pilots encountered multiple fast-moving UFOs off the coast of San Diego, California. While this story is now widely known, due to the government declassifying and releasing videos of this unidentified aerial phenomena, one detail from the USS Nimitz incident has often been overlooked – eyewitnesses also spotted a UFO under the surface of the ocean.